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Planning Commission Approves New Gothic Presbyterian Church in Rosemont

Published November 8, 2019 at 10:35AM | Updated November 8, 2019 at 11:11AM

Proposed Alexandria Presbyterian Church (photo via City of Alexandria)

Despite some concerns from neighbors, the Planning Commission unanimously gave the thumbs up a new 22,794 square-foot, gothic-style Presbyterian church, a couple of blocks north of T.C. Williams High School.

The new building will replace the existing 3,400 square foot Alexandria Presbyterian Church at 1300 W. Braddock Road, as well as a parking lot and an adjacent residence, but the congregation is larger than the church can contain. The congregation also has held worship services at Del Ray Baptist Church since 1999, but the new church will bring all of the members together under one roof.

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Eight Million Square Feet of New Development In the Works for Potomac Yard

By Vernon Miles

Published November 7, 2019 at 11:30AM

Just a few days after submitting plans for the Virginia Tech site near the North Potomac Yard Metro station, JBG Smith has submitted early concept designs for the development that will replace Target and the other Potomac Yard stores.

While the area is known today as a big-box shopping center and surface parking lot, the majority of the new development will be office and residential spaces in a large grid, the Washington Business Journal first reported. Ten of the buildings will be required to have retail, with optional retail at the southern end of the site.

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New Art Deco Influenced Townhouses Planned for Braddock Neighborhood

By Vernon Miles

Published November 6, 2019 at 2:00PM

New townhouses proposed at 601 North Alfred Street (image via City of Alexandria)

A brick home built around 1940 in the Braddock neighborhood could be torn down and replaced with a pair of new townhouses.

The pair of townhouses at 603 N. Alfred Street are scheduled for review at the Board of Architectural (BAR) tonight (Wednesday) at 7 p.m.

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Virginia Tech Unveils First Concept Plan for North Potomac Yard

By Vernon Miles

Published November 4, 2019 at 10:30AM | Updated November 4, 2019 at 10:50AM

(Updated at 10:50 a.m.) Plans are starting to take shape for North Potomac Yard.

Virginia Tech has submitted its first concept plan, showing what its Innovation Campus will look like just as the design of the Potomac Yard Metro station nears its final design phase.

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ADA-Accessible Upgrades Coming to Old Town VRE Station

By Vernon Miles

Published October 31, 2019 at 10:30AM | Updated October 31, 2019 at 11:48AM

The Amtrak and VRE station (Staff photo by Jay Westcott)

(Updated at 11:45 a.m.) Virginia Railway Express (VRE) is moving forward with plans to upgrade Alexandria Union Station — not to be confused with D.C.’s Union Station.

On Oct. 24, the VRE submitted concepts for a requested development site plan to improve accessibility to the train station at 110 Callahan Drive, which also serves Amtrak.

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New Carlyle Apartment Complex to Open in February

By Vernon Miles

Published October 28, 2019 at 3:15PM

Concept rendering for The Foundry (image via The Foundry)

The Foundry, a new apartment complex under construction in Hoffman Town Center, is scheduled to open early next year.

“The Foundry is set to open by the end of February 2020,” a spokesperson for the project told ALXnow in an email.

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Construction Continues on Wegmans and Carlyle Crossing Development

By Airey

Published October 25, 2019 at 11:30AM | Updated October 25, 2019 at 2:30PM

(Updated 2:30 p.m.) Work on the new Wegmans in Alexandria is progressing as construction crews dig downwards.

Cranes and workers could be seen on the site near the Eisenhower Metro today (Thursday) that now resembles a five-acre dug-out after construction on the future $400 million mixed-use development kicked off in August, as reported by Alexandria Living Magazine.

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City Grants An Additional $1.4 Million to Ramsey Homes Development

By Airey

Published October 23, 2019 at 3:30PM

The Ramsey Homes affordable housing project will loaned an additional $1.4 million thanks to a vote by the Alexandria City Council.

Council members voted to grant the additional funding to the redevelopment last night (Tuesday), bringing the total amount Alexandria has loaned to $5 million.

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Morning Notes

By ALXnow.com

Published October 17, 2019 at 8:00AM

New Silver Diner to Open Next Year — “Silver Diner will open one of its newest location at a mixed-use development… near Northern Virginia Community College’s Alexandria campus. The 6,600-square-foot restaurant will be part of Weingarten Realty Investors’ West Alex, a Harris Teeter-anchored building at King and North Beauregard streets. It will open next summer.” [WTOP]

Free Flu Vaccines on Saturday — “The Alexandria Health Department will host a free flu shot clinic on October 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Patrick Henry Elementary School (4643 Taney Ave.). Flu shots are available for adults and children ages six months and older at no cost. No insurance or proof of residency is required.” [City of Alexandria]

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Climate Change Forces Civil War-Era Building to be Rebuilt a Few Feet Higher

By Vernon Miles

Published October 15, 2019 at 3:15PM

Rendering of The Mill restaurant (image via City of Alexandria)

Rising water levels are forcing one planned redevelopment of a historic property to move the building up a few feet.

The Mill, a building at the heart of Robinson Landing development along the waterfront, is being renovated and turned into a Southern-inspired restaurant. The city filing by local builder Murray Bonitt noted that the building was at one point used as a mess hall for Union soldiers during the Civil War. But the renovation will involve taking the building apart and putting it back together again a few feet above its current elevation.

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Metro Taps Developer to Move Huntington Metro Project Forward

By Airey

Published October 15, 2019 at 12:45PM

Example concept plan for redeveloped area around Huntington Metro (Map via Metro)

Metro is moving forward with plans to develop the areas around the Huntington station in Fairfax County, just south of Alexandria.

The transit agency announced it would tap Stout & Teague as the property’s “master developer” by preparing and dividing the 12-acre site into parcels that could be then sold or leased to other developers.